Sustainable protection coordination in presence of distributed generation with distributed network.

Summary: The distributed generation (DG) is getting extensively integrated in existing power distribution system because of the massive development in green energy technologies and their economical, technical, and environment benefits. However, apart from beneficial aspects, DGs also have various and complex technical limitations, major of which are loss of protection coordination among protection devices which can lead to malfunctioning of protection devices, blind protection, fuse blowing, and permanent outage of power supply due to temporary faults. In this paper, a novel curve fitting technique is designed to restore much influenced recloser‐fuse coordination using the directional properties of midline recloser for upstream and downstream protection devices coordination. It also works on fuse‐saving scheme. Using Electrical Transient Analysis Program (ETAP) Software, the proposed methodology is implemented on a real 11 kV Rajewala radial distribution feeder starting from 132 kV Eimnabad grid station, district Gujranwala, Pakistan. Present here are some key results. Different case studies are carried out and results validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology, and the coordination among protection devices is sustained even after DGs integration in the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]